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Article: 2D symbologies make their mark.(marking)
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- Tooling & Production
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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With outsourcing becoming a trend in many industries, traceability of components has become a major focus for quality and inspection purposes. An advancement in traceability and part marking is 2D symbology, a marking method that can hold much more information than the traditional bar code marking.
"A traditional 1D bar code contains about 14 characters of data," says Mark Correa, director of product marketing, Symbol Technologies, a provider of bar code scanning equipment, handheld computers, and wireless LAN solutions. "With a 2D code, hundreds of characters can be coded. For example, on a ID bar code, a product could be identified with a fixed product number. ...